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v operates the movable breech and hammer.

. waited iatrs Jenn Josera crlons, or einen, Beheren, ',n'ssic'non 'ro 'EDWARD DE BEAUMONT, on "SAME PL'AOF..

y Lehm Para.: No. 101,826, dared April 12, 1ero.

\ The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the seme.

1 hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the .accompanying drawings and the letters ofv reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent in Figure 1, aside View;

Figui-e2, a top view;

Figure 3, a vertical central section and in Figure 4, a detached view ofthe cooking-cam.

This invention relates to an improvement inthe arm known as the needle-gnn, and consists in the arrangement of the mainspring within the lever which A is the rear end of the barrel, formed to receive the cartridge-shell, and extending back to form a guide -for the combined lock and the movable breech secured to the wood stock bya screw through the tail-piece B. G is the movable breech, through which the har'nf mer or needle d extends, the needle being formed or made a part ofthe head D, also forming a spindle, f, around which is arranged a cylinder, n, to which a handle or lever, E, is 'ixed,to turn the said cylinder on the spindle f, and also to serve as a means for draw ing the breech back as denoted in broken lines, grl..

The breech is cut away so that the said handle E 'may be turned down, as denotedin broken lines, ig. 2.

Within the handle E is arranged the mainspring a, supported in the handle, and working in an annular groove, m, in the spindle f, so that, in whatever position the said handle stands, the spring will bear upon the spindle.

F is the trigger and G the scar, formed as part of a spring, g, underneath the barrel.

`in thus raising the arm, a canne, .operates to force back The operation of these parts is as follows: Y

'lhe position of the lever E, when the arm is discharged, is as denoted in broken lines, g. 2. To draw backthe breech. for charging, raise the arm, asdenoted in figs. 1 and 3, (theeylinder a being connected to the movable breech by a connection, H, and screw, h, the said screw working in a groove, i, on the breech,) on the cylinder the head D', and with it thev Aneedle-d, as denoted in fig; 3, the eylinderhoiding-the hammer back while the handle is turned up. In this lposition the movable breech is brought back with the whole lock mechanism, -as'dnotcd in broken lines, iig. 1; the cartridge is then inserted in the usual manner forvbreech-loaders, thebreech-block and mechanism returned, and the handle E turned down at right anf gies, as' denoted in iig. 2, which leaves the hammerhead D caught upon the sear G, as seen in g,3,fmm

which it is released by operating the trigger in the usual manner; but until the arr'n E is thus turnedy down, the hammer cannot be discharged, inasmuch as it will be held by the cylinder n.

A position of half-cock is held by`a lock, L. A.

cartridge-extractor', consisting of acatch, t, is applied tothe movable breechacting inthe usual manner, to' 'withdraw the cartridge-shell.

I claim as my invention The combination of tlxemovable breech C and llammer D, constructed with the spindle f and needle d, with the oam'cylinder 'n and handle E, inclosing the mainspring a, and trigger F, and scar G, the whole constructed and arranged t-o operate in the manner described.

JOHN JOSEPH CLOES.

Witnesses:

H. RIEBNYck, '/l. on GONINOKE. 

